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I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.
Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.
The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.... (more Antonio Gramsci quotes)
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The Antonio Gramsci Reader: Selected Writings, 1916-1935 by Antonio Gramsci, David Forgacs, and Eric J. Hobsbawm |
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Antonio Gramsci (Routledge Critical Thinkers) by Steven J. Jones |
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Antonio Gramsci: Towards an intellectual biography (International library of social and political thought) by Alastair Davidson |
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